Deadline: 31 October 2023
Applications are now open for the Green Web Foundation Scholarship 2023-2024 . The Green Web Foundation is looking for five professionals in digital rights and climate justice who want to build bridges between these movements. Apply today for a six-month paid part-time fellowship. Successful fellows will be supported in a peer learning programme and will deliver a community-based project that contributes to digital rights and climate justice.
The aim of this grant is to build bridges between the digital rights and climate justice movements. Whether you're a technologist, researcher, activist or policymaker: if you're interested in this intersection, and see potential for a project, this grant is for you!
This grant is based on the findings and opportunities identified by the Green Screen coalition and the landscape analysis it recommended on this intersection. Previous examples of successful projects have been: a climate litigator trained in his open data practices to make legal activism in Latin America more effective; a web developer learnt about climate justice so that a large open source project could take steps beyond simply more green code; a digital policy maker created resources for digital security and reliable climate information for climate justice activists in the Global South.
Responsibilities
The fellows will:
- dedicate 5 hours a week to your socialising for 6 months.
- Design and deliver a scholarship project that contributes to digital rights and climate justice.
- take part in weekly cohort calls and self-directed learning on a regular basis while documenting your outdoor experience.
- write monthly blog posts about your experiences and learnings during the scholarship.
Benefits
Scholarship holders receive:
- A grant of €6,000 to compensate you for your time.
- A project budget available on request for collaborators, materials, travel and other expenses for the proposed project.
- Mentoring from experienced professionals in greening the Internet, climate justice, digital rights and facilitative leadership.
Eligibility
A successful bloke:
- He is an active practitioner in the digital rights and/or climate justice movements and is keen to explore how these movements can learn from and support each other.
- It has a clearly articulated project that serves a community of which the fellow is a part and bridges the digital rights and climate justice movements in a practical way. Some project areas could be: open data for climate justice; digital security for defenders of environmental land rights; sustainable digital infrastructures; fossil-free internet; building open source technology to tackle the climate crisis; combating climate disinformation and misinformation; or combating digital and environmental extractivism.
- Acting in favour of fairer and more sustainable futures, maintaining collaborative space for their communities and dedicating themselves to self-reflection in their practice.
- You are affiliated to an organisation or work independently.
Application
For more information, visit the Green Web Foundation Fellowship.
